The Reconciliation of Government With Liberty

by John W. Burgess

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The Greeks and the state as a human institution — The political system of Ancient Greece — The Dorian invasion — The social basis of the Spartan state -the Lycurgan Constitution — The College of Ephors — The powers of the Ephors in limiting autocracy — The downfall of the Ephors — The decay of Sparta — The Ionian invasion — The Athenian state — Change from King to archons-the Draconian Constitution and the Court of the Ephetae — Fopu lar discontent and the appearance of Cylon — The Solonian Constitution and institutions — The Areopagus and its Judicial power — The advent of Pisistratus and demagogy — The tyranny of Hippias — Clisthenes and genuine democracy — The War with Persia and its results on the Constitution of Athens and the relation of Athens to her Allies — Pericles and Caesaristic de mocracy — Overthrow of the Areopagus by Pericles — The decay of Athens Defects in the constitutional relations of the Assembly to the Areopagus — The Greek states as despotisms unable to form a National Union — The rule of Macedon over Greece.